Look, I know Jimmy and Superman are pals, but Superman has nothing better to do than drag Jimmy's "fan club" to the tropics in a glider??

Not only does Jimmy have a fan club of younger boys, but these kids apparently all got their parents' permission to spend a week unattended on a tropical island.

So the U.S. Navy puts a destroyer at the disposal of a cub reporter? And instead of sending sailors to retrieve these endangered, young Americans, they let Jimmy put on a ludicrous looking wetsuit, hop into a bathyscaph (which he can't get to shore and abandons to the waves- how was this a rescue??) and swim ashore.

Along the way, Jimmy is attacked by a giant clam and his lower legs are injured (where's Aquaman when you need him?).

Jimmy's big rescue consists of crawling around on the island while weird stuff keeps happening. Piles of fruit appear in the night, Mysterious lights and ultimately, a statue appears:

Luckily, for all of us, Superman finally returns from his trip.
Superman takes Jimmy far below the island to a kingdom of giant insects made super-intelligent and very large due to radiation. But don't worry, Science, you won't get to study them:

Why The Silver Age?

I grew up in the late 70's and early 80's, right as superhero comics were going from a floundering social rant about human rights to a newly reinvented vision of your favorite heroes as masked psychopaths. Fortunately for me, my local library had a copy of "Batman from the 30's to the 70's" which I checked out and read regularly. I was hooked. I was filled with what Alan Moore would later call a "sense of wonder" at the elaborate interior of the Batcave. The supporting cast with room for a Batgirl, Batwoman, Bathound and Bat-Mite. Oh, sure, I joined the 1985 bandwagon of "Dark Knight Returns" and "Watchmen" style grittiness... but after a few years of that stuff, I began to miss, sincerely, characters like Streaky the Super-cat and Mr. Mxyzptlk. In a few more years, I began to really miss Aquaman's shirt (oh, and his hand). No, for me, superheroes will always exist in a shimmering land written before 1967.

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